Kathmandu: Human waste left by climbers on Mount Everest has become a problem that is causing pollution and threatening to spread disease on the world’s highest peak, the chief of Nepal’s mountaineering association said Tuesday. The more than 700 climbers and guides who spend nearly two months on Everest’s slopes each climbing season leave large amounts of feces and urine, and the issue has not been addressed, Ang Tshering […]

Many may find this post not interesting interesting or funny or entertained. But this post does share important information. Not many realize the importance of blood until they need it….. This was shared by Robin Kankerwal, from Global Blood Donors Team and below is what he says : “Inspired from a true incidence when I lost my loved one due to shortage of blood. I have decided to take an […]

New Delhi: Despite the repeated denials by the successive governments, Devadasi system continues to thrive in rural areas of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.   According to a report submitted by one man commission headed by Justice Raghunath Rao, the two states together have about 80,000 Devadasi women. The figures are much higher than the number of the AP social welfare commission, which put the figure at 24, 273.   The […]

Please READ & SHARE……We have found this MOTHER in Sleeper Class Waiting Room in Secunderabad Railway Station Yesterday…It was so painful to hear her storyas she was in abandoned stage and waiting for her Son, who heartlessly left this wonderful loving mother in the Railway Station almost a year ago. Not realizing the fact that her son may never come back, she is waiting in the hall since then. She […]

  San Jose: Each year about 8.8 million tons of plastic ends up in the world oceans, a quantity much higher than previous estimates, according to a new study that tracked marine debris from its source. That’s the equivalent of five grocery bags full of plastic debris dotting each foot of coastline around the world, said study lead author Jenna Jambeck, an environment engineering professor at the University of Georgia. […]

LONDON: Unemployment globally might account for nine times as many deaths by suicide every year (about 45000) as the recent economic crisis (around 5000 excess suicides), according to a long-term analysis of suicide risk across 63 countries between 2000 and 2011.   Researchers estimate that about 233000 suicides took place each year between 2000 and 2011, of which unemployment accounted for around a fifth (about 45000). Unemployment was linked with […]

New York: At least 3,600 children have been orphaned due to the Ebola outbreak in West African countries, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said. The Unicef said in a report Friday that the number covers those who have lost both their parents in the hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Ebola outbreak that began in December last year has left almost 9,000 children with just a […]

NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO MIGHT BE DISTURBING Prajwala India, an NGO working for women’s rights across India has shared the following video of yet another heinous attack on the modesty of a woman. The video shows the alleged rapist smiling to the camera while the victim pleads with him to let go. She even says her only option after this would be death. The organisation headed by Sunitha […]

How does an average Indian respond to incidents of sexual harassment? Depending on the extent of damage done, the initial flurry of questions are usually the ones confirming that the woman in question was not callously ‘inviting’ trouble. If it is ascertained that she has not flouted any rule laid down by Indian conventional wisdom – that she had not consumed alcohol, was not alone or dozing off in a […]

Air pollution has afflicted the nation for a long time now, and the government is taking appropriate measures in order to deal with the rising threat. The most recent step in this direction being the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) notice to New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Allahabad, Hyderabad, and Agra for the sudden increase in their respective air pollution levels, thanks to the growing number of private vehicles. This […]